Animation Worksheet: Stop Motion

Animation and design lesson 5: Stop-motion animation · Set 977 · 40 questions

Creator's tip (Move, snap, repeat): Steps: build the set and models → fix the camera → take one photo → move the model a little → repeat → play the photos fast. Photos = seconds × photos per second; seconds = photos ÷ photos per second. Still camera, steady lamp light, tiny moves, hands out of shot.

1. 1.🧸 A stop-motion film plays at 15 photos per second. How many photos do you need for 5 seconds?
2. 2.🧸 In stop-motion, how is movement made? (a) drawing on glass (b) photos of small moves (c) speeding up a song (d) one long video
3. 3.🧸 Good or poor stop-motion tip: “keep the camera still”? (a) poor tip (b) good tip
4. 4.True or false: “move the camera often” is a good stop-motion tip. (a) False (b) True
5. 5.🧸 Good or poor stop-motion tip: “leave a hand in shot”? (a) good tip (b) poor tip
6. 6.🧸 A stop-motion film plays at 10 photos per second. How many photos do you need for 6 seconds?
7. 7.🧸 Why can light from a window spoil a stop-motion film? (a) it turns photos round (b) it stops the camera (c) windows are noisy (d) the light keeps changing
8. 8.🧸 Good or poor stop-motion tip: “tape the set down”? (a) good tip (b) poor tip
9. 9.🧸 A clay car must move 12 cm in 12 equal moves, one move for each photo. How many cm is each move?
10. 10.🧸 Each stop-motion photo takes 10 seconds to set up and shoot. How many minutes do 114 photos take?
11. 11.True or false: “make big jumps each move” is a poor stop-motion tip. (a) False (b) True
12. 12.🧸 Which of these is often used for stop-motion models? (a) ice cream (b) modelling clay (c) soap bubbles (d) smoke
13. 13.True or false: “bump the table often” is a good stop-motion tip. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.🧸 Good or poor stop-motion tip: “shoot by a sunny window”? (a) good tip (b) poor tip
15. 15.🧸 Moving a model in very tiny steps makes the film … (a) louder (b) shorter (c) faster and jumpier (d) slower and smoother
16. 16.🧸 Why must the camera stay perfectly still? (a) to make it louder (b) so photos are blurry (c) so the set does not jump (d) to save battery
17. 17.🧸 A clay car must move 18 cm in 9 equal moves, one move for each photo. How many cm is each move?
18. 18.🧸 A clay car must move 20 cm in 5 equal moves, one move for each photo. How many cm is each move?
19. 19.🧸 A stop-motion film plays at 12 photos per second. How many photos do you need for 3 seconds?
20. 20.🧸 A clay car must move 10 cm in 5 equal moves, one move for each photo. How many cm is each move?
21. 21.🧸 You took 228 photos for a stop-motion film that plays at 12 photos per second. How many seconds long is it?
22. 22.🧸 A stop-motion film plays at 15 photos per second. How many photos do you need for 14 seconds?
23. 23.🧸 Good or poor stop-motion tip: “use steady lamp light”? (a) poor tip (b) good tip
24. 24.True or false: “leave a hand in shot” is a poor stop-motion tip. (a) True (b) False
25. 25.🧸 Each stop-motion photo takes 20 seconds to set up and shoot. How many minutes do 27 photos take?
26. 26.🧸 Good or poor stop-motion tip: “make big jumps each move”? (a) good tip (b) poor tip
27. 27.🔢 To make a stop-motion film, which comes first: “repeat photo and move” or “play the photos fast”? (a) repeat photo and move (b) play the photos fast
28. 28.🧸 A stop-motion film plays at 10 photos per second. How many photos do you need for 7 seconds?
29. 29.🧸 A stop-motion film plays at 12 photos per second. How many photos do you need for 10 seconds?
30. 30.🔢 To make a stop-motion film, which comes first: “repeat photo and move” or “move the model a little”? (a) repeat photo and move (b) move the model a little
31. 31.True or false: “leave a hand in shot” is a good stop-motion tip. (a) False (b) True
32. 32.🧸 Good or poor stop-motion tip: “move in tiny steps”? (a) poor tip (b) good tip
33. 33.🔢 To make a stop-motion film, what comes right after “move the model a little”? (a) take one photo (b) fix the camera in place (c) play the photos fast (d) repeat photo and move
34. 34.🧸 You took 156 photos for a stop-motion film that plays at 12 photos per second. How many seconds long is it?
35. 35.True or false: “keep hands out of shots” is a poor stop-motion tip. (a) False (b) True
36. 36.🧸 A clay car must move 24 cm in 12 equal moves, one move for each photo. How many cm is each move?
37. 37.True or false: “move in tiny steps” is a good stop-motion tip. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.🧸 A stop-motion film plays at 15 photos per second. How many photos do you need for 12 seconds?
39. 39.🧸 You took 240 photos for a stop-motion film that plays at 15 photos per second. How many seconds long is it?
40. 40.🧸 Each stop-motion photo takes 30 seconds to set up and shoot. How many minutes do 24 photos take?

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